WASPS THAT PROVISION THEIR NESTS WITH COCKROACHES
Family POMPILIDAE
Pompilus bracatus Bingham
Natural hosts.—Cockroaches, India (Bingham, 1900).
Pompilus sp.
Natural host.—Cockroach, Nyasaland (Lamborn in Poulton, 1926): The wasp was collected leading a nymph of the cockroach by its antenna. The cockroach was in a stupefied state, and its antennae were bitten off to about half their length.
Salius verticalis Smith
Natural hosts.—Cockroaches, India (Bingham, 1900).
Family AMPULICIDAE
The species of Ampulex do not appear to make special nests in which to lay their eggs but drag their prey to any convenient hole, or crack in the ground (Arnold, 1928). Although many species of Ampulex have been described, the prey of only a small number of species have been discovered, but the known prey are all cockroaches.